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*Laura wrote:Wow...Truly amazing.

After watching this,I had to think about how wonderfully designed is the Human Being.The same musical piece can be played by say 4 or 5 people who'd simply use only their 2 hands to play the instruments.Oh,yes...and their brain.No one can beat THAT machine.

Thanks for posting.Fascinating stuff.

Who but students would have the time to create such a thing! This is almost unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in catcher cones. This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa. Amazingly, 97% of the machine's components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa....yes, farm equipment! It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can see it was well worth the effort. It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.

Voyager wrote:

*Laura wrote:Wow...Truly amazing.

After watching this,I had to think about how wonderfully designed is the Human Being.The same musical piece can be played by say 4 or 5 people who'd simply use only their 2 hands to play the instruments.Oh,yes...and their brain.No one can beat THAT machine.

Thanks for posting.Fascinating stuff.

Do you think it's real or animated? Based on the comments it's hard to tell. Here's the supposed story on it:

Who but students would have the time to create such a thing! This is almost unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in catcher cones. This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa. Amazingly, 97% of the machine's components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa....yes, farm equipment! It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can see it was well worth the effort. It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.

Personally, I think it has to be an animation. It just seems too perfect to be real. Even if it is animated, it took one heck of a genius to create it.

The story on the Neil Peart / YYZ animation is that it took a guy two years to create it while he was going to college to major in video animation. He actually played the drum parts himself, video-taped them with a digital camera, and then animated the video.

Amazing stuff!!

Voyager wrote:Another cool musical animation of Neil Peart playing YYZ:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-2fKi9Zu5o